you. can't. smoke on the water all landowners in the west blame corporate greed for contaminating zero soil and water as fracking expands worldwide promising big money for big business. everywhere they were all children i saw them with my own eyes as horrifying reports of war crimes keep coming from rebel occupied syrian town of r.t. hears from survivors of the massacre carried out by these lists. and ukraine at a crossroads the country's president is in russia seeking the financial help the west is unwilling to give and that's mid-month long pro protest back at home that opposed any deal with moscow.

which aren't international with me marina joshie welcome to the program echoes the countryside get away from the city hostel an idea ruined for some americans by the negative effects of fracking boom in places like texas to ground drilling technology has become a proven way to boost corporate profits by this guy next you can find out it's a landowner's hope pay the price. the local government in texas tells steve lipski that the water from his well water that he can set on fire is safe to drink and to use in his home. you can hear it in here. thank you but steve has the assessment of other experts who say he's well is it ticking bomb in his backyard loaded with methane and other contaminants why the starkly different assessments steve claims that

a fracking operation nearby contaminated his well and that texas energy authorities are shielding the gas company. they don't want the world to know that it really is this bad they don't want it in official documents but it could be that the fracking allowed gas from lower formations into the aquifer and subsequently into steve lipski as well the gas company denies the claim the lips sued the range resources corp but the firm counter sued and won in caution effect evidence a ground water is incredibly difficult to prove my use of us are is an engineer who worked with the federal environmental protection agency is not surprised that the state oil and gas regulator sided with the gas corp conceit that the rights it seen come in survival from oil and gas production issues should be put him in charge of also

regulating the protection of groundwater from our going down swells and there's any parent conflict of interest in that determined to fight for his home father of three steve has been shipping fresh water from the city on trucks at a cost of five hundred dollars a month but the family now faces another blow from the fracking corporation of four point two million dollars lawsuit for defamation. steve lipski his dream house and it's a beautiful property has become his nightmare several of his neighbors apparently have the same problem but they're reluctant to speak out after they saw how the gas company went after mr lipski they shouldn't expect much help from washington either so why do you sell us our says the environmental protection agency has not put nearly enough resources into studying the effects that fracking has on groundwater

but that didn't stop the e.p.a. from coming up with a report in favor of the practice. believes this word vice to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas wells continues to frac slide thousand feet deep pretty much standing around on top of one hundred years from now when somebody dies because there's some timing on the border and they're able to trace it to this frack him everybody else instead who cares invest in a few loss of feed for now it seems that the authorities at all levels are so fired up on fracking potential profits that households like steve leave his family are left to fight alone to get a healthy environment in their homes. going to check out our t. parker county texas a controversial industry is already experiencing some unwelcome festive attention across the ocean in the u.k. protesters dressed as santa as have blocked the entrance to a drilling site with

a wind turbine blade but this won't be enough to stop the government from further shale gas exploration is or laura smith now explains what started in bold combs sussex where locals that campaign is barricaded to test drilling sites but two months it's continued in sold goods with demonstrators blocking roads to stop drilling equipment big deliberate but it's full steam ahead for king ministers are preparing to identify sauza as its square miles for exploration across the country but the announcements likely to add more fuel to the fire of the protest movement there's an enormous amount of water involved in sort of what you do if you plastics rocks with water and chemicals people are concerned about the waste they're concerned about the noise here in the u.k. the government so keen to get locals on board that it's offering up front payments

of one hundred thousand pounds per well even if no gas is produced but campaigners look unlikely to sell their country even at that price. now the global campaign leader for friends of the earth hopes the u.k. government will have what it takes to stand up for its people. we've only had one hundred full of explorer tree drilling sites across the u.k. but already we've seen huge local opposition whether it's been in the southeast of ireland or the northwest where we're seeing it now and i think with the government's new licensing round which is going to open up another two thirds of the country to potentially to fracking we're going to see even more position and i think the government is going to have to put a moratorium in place like it had done previously and actually listen to the concerns of communities because there's a very loud and clear message. well we have plenty of more if you stored up online visitor com for the latest on the act of a struggle against corporations. people

put in of the entire family was kidnapped christians and executed these horrifying reports come to our chief from the town of north of the syrian capital which has been occupied by islamist rebel groups at least eighty people are said to have been massacred by the rebels but as the syrian army continues to liberate the city that number is expected to rise and our crew spoke to some of the survivors. when dawn was breaking over our address the al nusra front and the army of islam gave a signal for their fighters to attack and they came in hundreds making use of bad weather and the element of surprise over government forces you to say yeah after fierce fighting with the syrian army the rebel factions achieve their objectives with the city soon falling into the hands of those who the residents of the city have dubbed the decapitated hours of how the friend of mine told me that he claimed

he was insane in order to save his life and avoid the militants they believe just story and let him go he also said his children have been emotionally scarred from the savage act they have seen on the road between their house and the places where the fighters gather equals heads were chopped off and the bodies thrown all over the road. in the slaughter everywhere the eldest was only twenty years old he was slaughtered they were all children i saw them with my own eyes they killed fourteen people with a machete i don't know if these people were alawite i don't know why they were slaughtered they grabbed them by their heads and slaughtered them like sheep. and industrial town is inhabited by thousands of workers and their families who were all trapped when the fighters surrounded the town the details of what happened there are still uncertain you know we've only had leaks about massacres that have been described as the most gruesome since the start of the syrian crisis civilians told us that the workers of the not to be crude were all legs acute and burned

during the first hours of the attack whole families were massacred we do not have an exact estimation of the number because we were unable to get into the town but the number is high at the moment your vision for the syrian army commanders in the region decided to besiege the town and protect civilians by isolating them from areas where fighting is ongoing and a move seems necessary by the military whose operation is not expected to be an easy one. r.t. . now events in draw are yet again a reaction from the mainstream media which has been silent on the issue but we spoke to geopolitical analysts who says the world should be aware of the part american officials played in supporting it has limits militants in recent weeks there's been an important shift in the relationship between the united states government on the one hand and what is now being presented as the new islamic front

and we see doll that the united states is in fact negotiating and establishing a dialogue with the leaders of these terrorist organizations i should say that in this particular case the people who have dialogue with with the terrorists they have blood on their hands they have provided funding most of the military and logistical financial aid has been china holds to these al qaeda affiliated organizations and that's what we have to address there could be no peace as long as the west the military alliance supports the terrorists. and coming out on our team a landmark john treatment court in america rules the n.s.a.'s data collection program may be unconstitutional after answering an invasion of privacy complaints. and germany is in a hurry to phase out nuclear power but the alternatives come

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welcome back he was ninety international live from moscow pro e.u. protesters in ukraine are holding their breath as president yet a call which had still russia seeking loans to the country's troubled economy desperately needs the opposition fears and a deal with moscow could undermine their ambitions for closer ties to europe brussels earlier dismissed demands for billions in financial aid effectively freezing integration talks but even before the ukrainian leaders visit to russia signals from the blog have become mixed as in reports. from the threat of sanctions if he goes to moscow now after words is why it should then it might be interesting to know that. the bank accounts in general cannot be

open to any more for some operators to open questioning of the great government's credibility this government of ukraine has clearly discredited itself in terms of economic help from the e.u. the reaction of europe's officials to the events of last month in ukraine has indeed made to reach cocktail they've effectively played pinball with ukraine's expectations some have expressed uncertainty about any future dialogue with. we lacking a decision by ukraine's leader in a situation when ukraine's president says the offer is not good for his country we need to take a break and think it over while others signaled there was still no political statements on twitter are not the best way to resolve the matter the best signal we could make is to tell you crave that our doors are still open for it. all this marks quite a change from the sweet talk of many european leaders before the vilnius summit in november where president had refused to sign the. deal the offer of

signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table we should always respect ukraine's suffering decisions but the tone rapidly changed. proposed compensation for the deal was not in its a bleck my own. try to my. president. and of course it's connected with they are present connect that with the interests of those core wants to get some benefits from joining the comprehensive free trade area we've got the money is still the main sticking point ukraine needs billions the e.u. offers millions and both signs refused to budge in their demands amidst this continuing standoff both geopolitically and on the streets of kiev is going to

moscow with a fifteen billion dollar loan from russia all regular rumored to be the likely result of this trip despite harsh rhetoric coming from europe has been insisting that ukraine will not step down from the euro association however the protesting crowd behind the barricades already made it clear that every step of ukraine's president and moscow will be closely watched. reporting from kiev in ukraine. all there's another party involved in trying to sway ukraine towards the e.u. integration with an air raid of american politicians visiting kiev lately to support the protesters at a national affairs commentator recross of explains washington's heightened andrus by his desire to ultimately lure ukraine into nato. what's important to realize is that the west has crafted a program for integrating ukraine into the west which means not only the european union european union it's the economic component of the arrangement the north atlantic treaty organization is the real you know. goal of western policy piece

of ukraine so the intent is to use the war economic benefits trade benefits. you know pieces to soften the ukrainian or ukrainian populace ultimately for absorption into the north atlantic treaty organisation. now more expert opinion and analysis are those available on our website r.t. dot com where you can also find all of facts and numbers regarding what brussels and moscow can offer ukraine in case of closer partnership. a us judge has ruled out so the national security agency's telephone data collection may violate the constitution and at the conclusion of a lawsuit brought by an activist over a violations of his privacy the judge ordered the agency to stop collecting the campaigners data and for information already gathered to be destroyed snowden who

opened the world's eyes to the n.s.a.'s massive spying operations as the ruling should make authorities respect the legislation chris kids the owner of a secure online messaging service who moved his company to avoid u.s. intelligence control agrees with a whistleblower. people are starting to take things into their own hands and securing their own communications we see it every day on our service unseen dot i yes basically people come to us and say hey i'm you know i'm concerned it's not like i'm doing anything wrong i just don't want my patients information michael law clients information i don't want any of that stuff to be grabbed by somebody the argument the government's making is that the netted data that they're collecting which is all the information about the phone calls who called who at what time how long the call was they think that's fair game that they should be able to grab as much of that as possible when you go on a fishing expedition to catch every fish in the ocean and then throw ninety nine

point nine nine nine percent of them back in the water that's that's not good that's not following the standard of the law if there is of suspicion or a reason for people to be surveilled like this go to a judge get a warrant we'll cooperate everybody i know in this business would cooperate with a legal warranted search and that's you know by the way are companies in iceland so you have to go to an icelandic court so while the n.s.a. is appetite for personal data seems far from being satisfied some groups have found quiet an unusual way to stand up for digital privacy. you better not sky you better get out you know you better tell you. this is. true. now there's humorous video implores people to not let the n.s.a. spy on them during this holiday season had to call for the full story. and also

they never before released information about the boston bomber showed her not brother tom confessing he heard voices in his head before the attack. now despite a fisherman is asked or japan is in no rush to give up atomic power but the ripples from the nuclear catastrophe are being felt across the pacific and germany berlin wants to exit its nuclear program by two thousand and twenty two despite atomic power producing almost a fifth of the country's anarchy are just bitter all over reports on the huge cost of the transition. disagreeing with germany's no to nuclear has become it to be topic in a country that has set itself up as the world leader renewable energy can in it for

all their lives germans have been told that nuclear energy is bad but that idea has now filled up their brains so that there is no space left for any other thoughts on the race for renewable wind and solar is being financed by rising electricity bills for consumers in twenty twelve the cost paid by households was three point six euros cents per kilowatt hour now it stands at five point five cents adding about one hundred eighty five year zero to the average yearly bill that seen the emergence of groups who want an end to the wind and solar switchover and the return to nuclear does not really because on those who have money who are the target audience of these green energy can pay everyone else gets left behind and despite the ability of nuclear power stations like this one to generate large amounts of electricity relatively cheaply no matter what the weather conditions the pro nuclear side of the debate in germany have struggled to get their voice heard the

experts say part of the problem is that people are worryingly naive about the real issues of generating power. only know is that electricity comes out of the wall in their house they don't know what it takes to keep a stable power grid to do that you need big power stations nuclear coal or gas the twenty eleven fukushima disaster prompted germany to ramp up the shutdown of nuclear power stations which is being carried out with a neo religious zeal. i know this whole movement is like an eco religion you commit a sin creates an evil and as with other religions this leads to the end of the world this attitude to energy makes me angry so as prices rise more fossil fuel power stations are having to be built to take up the slack for when the wind doesn't blow when the sun doesn't shine leaving germany's green revolution coated

in coal dust peter all over r.t. germany. well let's take a closer look now at the pros and cons of green energy and like fossil fuels these sources of energy are renewable and should be environmentally friendly but wind turbines and solar panels are expensive to install and take a long time to pay off driving up household and or g. bills also some of the green energy sources are tapan about whether since you don't get when and sun every day and the only produce relatively small amounts of power compared to conventional energy sources. else if you look at some other stories making news around the world then the explosion at a natural gas pipeline belonging to mexico state owned oil and gas producer pemex has injured up to seven people the incident happened near the capital and forced the evacuation of hundreds of local residents according to the company the blast was caused by the thieves who tried to tap into the pipeline officials are now

examining the full extent of the damage. thousands of civilians in south sudan have fled to un mission and the capital juba after the country's army were pelted the team to overthrow the government matter of g.'s had to be treated by a medical staff and the coup was staged by soldiers loyal to the country's former vice president and led to bloody street battles a dusk till dawn curfew has been imposed by president salva kiir after the rebels were dispersed. and watching our international and coming up our special report about the twists and turns in the life of a boxer fighting for his dignity and going. lucky

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